Podcast Episodes

Let’s end cervical cancer in Aotearoa | Dr Bev Lawton

Season 6 Episode 8

Join me as I sit down with the delightful Professor Bev Lawton, a trailblazing advocate for women's health, who shares her insights into menopause, cervical cancer prevention and endometriosis. From …

Published on 11 months, 2 weeks ago

Rethinking fitness and hormones | Dr Stacy Sims + Financial fitness with Generate

Season 6 Episode 7

Fresh from a work out Dr Stacy Sims joins me for a deep dive into the specific ways women need to move our bodies as we age.

A trailblazer in the science of female physiology, Stacy challenges the tr…

Published on 11 months, 3 weeks ago

When friends are whānau | Suzanne Lynch, Tina Cross + Jackie Clarke (The Lady Killers)

Season 6 Episode 6

Today I’m joined by three extraordinary and radically different women who consider each other family. Each in a different decade of life – their 50s, 60s, and 70s – Jackie Clarke, Tina Cross, and Suz…

Published on 11 months, 4 weeks ago

Making friends with my body - good friends! | Dr Hillary McBride

Season 6 Episode 5

In this episode, I sit down with psychologist, author, and menopause researcher Dr Hillary McBride to explore what it means to truly come home to our bodies - to treat them like a best friend. Hill…

Published on 1 year ago

Petra introduces the Parents We've Met podcast

Season 2 Episode 1

Buckle in for an uplifting conversation filled with laughter and wisdom! Petra Bagust is the host of popular rova podcasts Grey Areas and Sunday Sanctuary, a radio personality and TV presenter, a med…

Published on 1 year ago

Diving into the wreck: on mermaids, motherhood and midlife | Megan Dunn

Season 6 Episode 4

The tide is rising toward Megan’s 50th birthday, and we surf the currents of childhood memories to uncover how mermaids, like the best stories, delight us with their symbolic depth.

We reflect on my …

Published on 1 year ago

Bullies, blood and battlegrounds | Susie Ferguson

Season 6 Episode 3

There were three things Susie Ferguson was never going to do; climb Mt Everest, run a marathon or write a book.

However a serendipitous podcast interview with my good friend Frank nudged her to captu…

Published on 1 year ago

Nourishing the whole self | Nici Wickes

Season 6 Episode 2

I sit down with the delightful Nici Wickes, a beloved cookbook author with a talent for making culinary adventures accessible and joyful, as she shares her wisdom on no-fuss cooking, building confide…

Published on 1 year ago

From breakdown to breakthrough | Paddy Gower

Season 6 Episode 1

Join us for the first episode of Grey Areas Season 6 as we sit down with award-winning journalist, doco-maker and loveable rogue Patrick Gower to discuss his unfiltered memoir, This Is the F#$%ing Ne…

Published on 1 year, 1 month ago

Season 6 kicks off on Thursday 3rd October!

Season 6

Kia ora! I'm Petra, and welcome to Grey Areas, back for its sixth season. We're diving deep into the conversations that matter—those tricky, often unspoken topics that can powerfully shape our lives.…

Published on 1 year, 1 month ago